Kat Hack — turn any Web page into an HTML5 Katamari Damacy (via) #

Mr. Rogers' Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1997 Emmys — don't miss Esquire's eloquent description of the moment (via) #

What if you'd bought Apple stock instead of their products? — spoiler: you'd be rich (via) #

Dreamhost CEO shares his heartbreaking, preventable homebirth story — a huge warning to anyone considering home births (via) #

Instapaper goes social with 3.0 version — sharing, editor's picks, and browsing your friends' likes (via) #

Browser DNS prefetching harmful for sites with many subdomains — a single meta tag reduced Deviant Art's DNS queries by 10 billion per month (via) #

Ushahidi launches open-source location service — roll your own Foursquare; here's the requisite SXSW example running on Crowdmap #

MIT Media Lab's new logo is a Processing sketch — identity by algorithm (via) #

Is Scoble In This Room? — breakout app of SXSW 2011 #

Bytejacker goes to GDC 2011 — great episode; interviews with the creators of Sword & Sworcery, Indie Game: The Movie, and Cave Story (via) #

The Smartest Dog in the World — Graham Annable is a genius (via) #

The Content Farm launches new website — "written by people with a passing knowledge" (via) #

Kellan predicts the year of the anti-social SXSW — software scoped to friends-only favors intimacy over serendipity #

South by Southwest Homesick Blues — "Don't need Zuckerberg to know when the bubble blows" (via) #

Chicago Tribune feature on Kickstarter and crowdfunding — some great stories about how it's impacting Chicago artists #

Clay Johnson on why he joined Expert Labs — yay, crazy excited to work with Clay; also: I made a video intro to ThinkUp #

Lanyrd releases Chrome/Firefox extension to instantly hide all SXSW tweets — if you're not in Austin, you're going to need this #

NYT on the Groupon clone cottage industry — Yipit, an aggregator of 335 daily deals sites, spawned 20 copycats itself #

Jason Kottke introduces Stellar.io — I've been playing with it for a while, and it's great for surfacing interesting stuff #

The Like Log Study — analyzing 45 million Facebook reactions to 100k+ articles from 45 news sites #

Colbert interviews Dan Sinker, the journalism professor behind @MayorEmanuel — "time vortexes are funny things"; the whole thing needs to go to print (via) #

Windows 7's Microsoft Paint executable interpreted as audio — surprisingly listenable (via) #

TIME's video feature on the indie gaming scene — nice trend piece interviews the people behind Babycastles, Area/Code, and Osmos #

Thanks for Trumpet Winsock — used the essential Windows app in the mid '90s? make it right by paying for it now #

Lanyrd adds Firefox/Chrome extensions to see SXSW sessions in Twitter — hey, that guy in the second screenshot looks familiar #

Lag — an animated tale of high latency (via) #

Anatomy of a Crushing — Maciej's entertaining postmortem of the mini-exodus from Delicious to Pinboard (via) #

Slipstream, Chrome addon hides tweets by user or keyword — not going to SXSW? you're going to need this (via) #

URL Hunter — experimental game played in the browser's location bar (via) #

Foursquare releasing 3.0 for iPhone/Android tonight — now with recommendations, an overhauled leaderboard, and new ways to explore #

Tinted Sheen, browser blocker for Chrome and Firefox — block all references to you-know-who #

Adobe's Wallaby, experimental converter from Flash to HTML5 — for Webkit browsers only; before and after (via) #

Koalas to the Max — built with d3.js #

d3.js, Javascript library for manipulating data-driven documents — some of the examples are jaw-dropping #

The Million Song Dataset — massive data dump from Echonest and Musicbrainz; this is begging for some large-scale infoviz #

moviebarcode — expanding on Jason Salavon's film averaging (via) #

The IF Theory Reader — free book collects thought-provoking writing about interactive fiction (via) #

Auto-Tune the News takes on Charlie Sheen — last two links about him ever, honest: NYT gets meta and, importantly, his history of violence against women #

You Are Listening to Los Angeles — ambient music meets LAPD police scanner (via) #

Yu Suzuki reveals how Shenmue was meant to end — Gamasutra has a post-GDC writeup of his Shenmue postmortem; also: the Another World, Marble Madness, Cave Story and Maniac Mansion postmortems #

Bluetooth fingerless glove lets you talk to your hand — reminds me of SixthSense's feature to snap photos by making a frame with your fingers (via) #

TED video of Anthony Atala printing a human kidney — starts at the 9:20 mark #

Jacob Gilbreath's kinetic type treatment of Conan's farewell message — expertly done student project (via) #

Digitalkoot — Captcha-like games help digitize Finland's National Library archives as you play #

Bestselling Kindle author Amanda Hocking on reproducing her success — "This is literally years of work you're seeing. And hours and hours of work each day." #

Black history charts from 1900 — hand-drawn by students from W.E.B. Du Bois' sociology class, they look like modern infographics (via) #

Situationist — iPhone app by Benrik creates serendipitous encounters with strangers #

FUCK YEAH NOUNS  #

Play against the NYT's Rock Paper Scissors robot — with a sneak peek into what the computer thinks you'll do next #

Reddit interviews a 4-year-old boy — the dad did the same thing last year; it's like the Internet's version of the Up series #